I’m guessing you’re a lot younger than me. Notepad++ didn’t come out until 2003, sublime 2008. Wordpad was on every windows machine from 1995 onwards - no need

I’m guessing you’re a lot younger than me. Notepad++ didn’t come out until 2003, sublime 2008. Wordpad was on every windows machine from 1995 onwards - no need to install anything on a machine you might not even be able to, and unlike notepad it could open text files from unix machines properly Now I believe at some point in the last decade or so notepad was upgraded to be able to open those files so it’s no longer a feature. I dropped windows well before those other editors came out so not sure exactly when notepad was fixed, but I do remember using wordpad to read files